An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang threw out a lot of numbers — mostly of the technical variety — during his keynote Monday to kick off the company’s annual GTC Conference in San Jose, California. But there was one financial figure that investors surely took notice of: his projection that there will be $1 trillion worth of orders for Nvidia’s Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips, a monetary reflection of a booming AI business.

About an hour into his keynote, Huang noted that last year Nvidia saw about $500 billion in demand for its Blackwell and upcoming Rubin chips through 2026. “Now, I don’t know if you guys feel the same way, but $500 billion is an enormous amount of revenue,” he said. “Well, I’m here to tell you that right now where I stand — a few short months after GTC DC, one year after last GTC — right here where I stand, I see through 2027, at least $1 trillion.”

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On Monday, a consortium that oversees the US’s premier atmospheric research center announced it was suing the Trump administration over plans to shut it down. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, provides a home for interdisciplinary and collaborative research focused on anything atmospheric. Many of the country’s leading academic researchers in the field have spent time working there or have been involved in collaborations that involve NCAR.

But all of that is dependent upon government support for the research done there and, back in December, the head of the Office of Management and Budget labeled it woke and “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country,” calling for it to be broken up. Since then, planning has continued for the dismemberment of NCAR, with everything from its computing facilities to its headquarters building being up for grabs. But now, the group that runs NCAR is fighting back, alleging in a lawsuit that this is all happening simply because President Trump is mad at Colorado and its governor.

The center at risk

NCAR is situated in Boulder, Colorado, and provides a home for a huge range of science, from weather forecasting to climate change to the impact of space weather on the upper atmosphere. The work there is backed by two research aircraft and a supercomputing center to run the weather and climate models. All of that is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit that represents over 130 individual educational institutions. UCAR helps manage and maintain the facilities and apply for and distribute grant money, and it provides work space for people to pursue collaborative projects at its facilities. Graduate students, post-docs, and faculty may all spend time working at NCAR facilities or using its supercomputing resources as part of specific research projects.

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It’s only been two years since Dune: Part Two took over multiplexes, but we already have a trailer for the third installment. The appropriately-named Dune: Part Three is an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune Messiah book from 1969.

Just like the book, the latest film takes place a number of years after Dune: Part Two. “If the first movie was contemplation, a boy exploring a new world, and the second one is a war movie, this one is a thriller,” according to The Hollywood Reporter. “It is action-packed and tense. More muscular.”

Despite the time jump, most primary actors are returning. This includes Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Javier Bardem. Anya Taylor-Joy, who briefly appeared in the second film, is also coming back. The same goes for Jason Momoa, despite his Duncan Idaho character dying in the first film. Book readers will likely understand what that means.

The trailer also highlights the antagonist Scytale, as portrayed by Robert Pattinson. He should be a more nuanced villain than Baron Harkonnen, though that’s not exactly a high bar.

The release date is coming up fast. Dune: Part Three hits theaters on December 18. That’s this year. Villeneuve had intended to take a break after making the second one to focus on a smaller and more personal film, but said that he kept “waking in the middle of the night” with potential images from the third installment.

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Remember when two-day shipping seemed novel? “Wow—I can order this item on Amazon on Monday, and get it Wednesday? That’s amazing!” Now, orders are coming next day, sometimes as early as 4 a.m. I’m all for convenience, but how much faster do deliveries really need to get?

The answer, apparently, is much faster. On Tuesday, Amazon announced two new delivery options for customers in “a growing number of cities and towns:” For over 90,000 products on Amazon’s store, the company will let you choose to get the item in three hours or less. For those in select areas, you’ll even have the option to get it as soon as one hour.

For these new delivery options, Amazon is focusing on items you might expect to find at your local grocery store. That includes “everyday essentials,” like pantry, cleaning, health, and beauty products, as well as over-the-counter meds. The items expand beyond these too, to include electronics, toys, clothes, accessories, and even home and garden supplies.

If a product is eligible for one-hour or three-three delivery, you’ll see that advertised next to the item’s name. You can also search for products that can be delivered in one or three hours, as well as browse the existing “Same-Day Store” to find items that can be sent this fast.

Amazon says one-hour delivery is available to customers in “hundreds” of cities and towns in the U.S., including the following: Los Angeles, Chicago, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Houston, Washington, D.C., as well as smaller cities like Des Moines, Iowa; Boise, Idaho; and American Fork, Utah. Three-hour delivery is more widespread, available in over 2,000 cities and towns, including large, mid-size, and small cities, and their suburbs. Amazon didn’t name many of these, but did list suburbs like Cornwall, Pa.; Harrah, Okla.; and Arabi, La. You can check if your area supports these new delivery windows from Amazon’s site here.

These new delivery times aren’t free, however. For standard customers, one-hour delivery is $19.99, while three-hour delivery is $14.99. If you have Prime, you get a decent discount: $9.99 for one-hour delivery, and $4.99 for three-hour delivery.

Amazon is rolling out these changes ahead of its Big Spring Sale, which starts March 25 and runs through the 31st. Perhaps the company is banking that certain customers will want to get their discounted items as quickly as possible—even if it requires paying a hefty fee for that expedited delivery.

Warner Bros. just dropped a broody and haunting extended teaser for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part 3, the highly anticipated third film in the director’s acclaimed franchise—the last in his planned trilogy.

(Spoilers for first two films in the franchise below.)

In 2021’s Dune, we first met Frank Herbert’s iconic anti-hero, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet). That film culminated in the brutal defeat of House Atreides by rival House Harkonnen, with Paul and his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), fleeing to the desert and taking refuge with the Fremen. Among them is Chani (Zendaya), whom Paul has been seeing in visions all along.

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Kalshi has been sued by Arizona’s attorney general for operating an illegal gambling business in the state and unlawfully ‌allowing people to place bets on elections. “Kalshi may brand itself as a ‘prediction ⁠market,’ but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation ​and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,” the state’s Attorney General Kris Mayes said. 

The company defines itself as a prediction markets platform, where users make bets on the outcomes of events ranging from sporting matches to political actions. Kalshi has claimed that it operates under the auspices of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and shouldn’t be faced with the state-level charges of running unlicensed gambling. 

The case follows a similar action against Kalshi filed in Nevada last month. Kalshi also made headlines this year when an employee of popular YouTuber MrBeast was accused of insider trading on the platform.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/arizona-attorney-general-sues-kalshi-on-illegal-gambling-charges-172006290.html?src=rss

Researchers are warning about the risks posed by a low-cost device that can give insiders and hackers unusually broad powers in compromising networks.

The devices, which typically sell for $30 to $100, are known as IP KVMs. Administrators often use them to remotely access machines on networks. The devices, not much bigger than a deck of cards, allow the machines to be accessed at the BIOS/UEFI level, the firmware that runs before the loading of the operating system.

This provides power and convenience to admins, but in the wrong hands, the capabilities can often torpedo what might otherwise be a secure network. Risks are posed when the devices—which are exposed to the Internet—are deployed with weak security configurations or surreptitiously connected to by insiders. Firmware vulnerabilities also leave them open to remote takeover.

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FIFA is turning to streaming platforms to maximize its return on the 2026 World Cup. Two months after announcing a “Preferred Platform” partnership with TikTok, the organization has now struck a similar deal with YouTube.

Broadcasting rights are FIFA’s largest revenue stream for the tournament — and media companies pay top dollar for that access. So, deals like this with streaming platforms help sweeten the package for broadcasters looking to boost their reach.

What does that look like for those watching from home? FIFA says its media partners will have the option of streaming “a select number of matches in full” on their YouTube channels. They can also live-stream the first 10 minutes of every match, presumably serving as a hook to coax viewers to finish the match on television. In addition, FIFA’s media partners will get access to “every angle” of match footage to craft custom content.

“As the world’s attention turns to the action in Canada, Mexico and the United States, this collaboration with YouTube reinforces our ambition to maximise the tournament’s impact across the ever-evolving media landscape,” FIFA Secretary General Mattias Grafström said. He says the partnership will offer “fans everywhere easy access to an immersive view of the biggest single-sport event in history.”

The World Cup runs from June 11 to July 19. Matches will take place in 16 cities across Canada, Mexico, and the US.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/youtube-and-fifa-partner-up-for-the-2026-world-cup-170200470.html?src=rss

Now that Epic Games and Google have made up — or at least found a way to resolve their long-running disputes — everyone with a compatible Android device can get back to the business of playing Fortnite. The game will return to the Play Store globally on March 19, the same day that the next Fortnite season goes live. It previously dropped back onto the Play Store in the US in December.

Google pulled Fortnite from the Play Store back in 2020 after Epic tried to bypass the 30 percent cut of all in-app purchases that the storefront too. Apple did the same thing with the App Store version of Fortnite. Epic swiftly sued Google and Apple, kickstarting years-long legal battles with both companies. 

The dispute with Apple ultimately led to the company having to open up the App Store in certain markets, including the US and EU. Fortnite returned to the App Store in the EU in 2024 and in the US last year.

Google and Epic reached a settlement in November. Earlier this month, Google announced that it was lowering the cut it takes of in-app payments from 30 percent to between 10 and 20 percent. At that time, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney (who reportedly agreed not to publicly talk smack about the Play Store until 2032 as part of the settlement) confirmed that Fortnite would return to Google’s mobile storefront.

Epic recently announced a price increase for the in-game V-Bucks currency. It also confirmed that Fortnite Save the World — the game’s original mode — is going free-to-play in April.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/fortnite-will-return-to-googles-play-store-globally-on-march-19-170200794.html?src=rss